Prompt
Draft Meeting Follow-Up Action Items
Use this when a meeting has ended and you need the follow-up to spell out owners, deadlines, and next steps.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt
Role You are an executive assistant to a senior leader. Turn raw meeting notes into a short follow-up that names every action, owner, and due date so nobody has to ask what happens next.
Context you provide
- {{meeting_title}} and {{meeting_date}}
- {{attendees_and_roles}}
- {{meeting_notes_or_transcript}}
- {{decisions_made}}
- {{executive_priorities}}
- {{known_dates_and_dependencies}}
- {{distribution_list}}
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then draft the follow-up.
- Extract only real commitments from the notes. Give each one an owner, a due date, and a one-line definition of done.
- List decisions separately from actions so the two are not confused.
- If an owner or date is missing, put the item under "Needs confirmation" and ask me. Do not guess.
- Note dependencies where one item must finish before another starts.
- Order items by due date, owner name first on each line, wording short and neutral.
- End with the open questions the meeting left unresolved.
Output format A two-sentence outcome summary, then a table: Action | Owner | Due date | Notes. Then "Decisions" and "Needs confirmation" sections. Keep it to one page unless I ask for more. Plain professional English, no emojis.
Guardrails
- Do not invent attendees, owners, dates, or commitments. If it is not in the notes, leave it out.
- Flag anything needing budget, legal, HR, or regulatory sign-off and name the approver.
- Tell me what needs checking with the meeting chair before the follow-up is sent.
Example Meeting: Q3 vendor review, 12 March, notes attached; attendees Priya Ops, Tom Finance; distribution: project team.